دنیا بھر میں ہر نئے سال کی آمد پر جشن منایا جاتا ہے۔ مہذب، باوقار، دوربیں اور باشعور جمہوری معاشروں میں جہاں نئے سال کو پورے جوش و جذبے کے ساتھ خوش آمدید کہا جاتا ہے، وہیں گزشتہ سال کے واقعات و حالات پر نظرثانی کر کے کارکردگی اور کارگزاریوں کا جائزہ لیا جاتا ہے […]
Shining India has lost its lustre under Modi mania which grips India today. Unfortunately, the Nehruvian secularism has been totally eclipsed by the RSS-driven Hundutva Manusmriti. The Laws of Manu consecrating human indignity have engulfed Indian state as well as public imagination. As a perfect exemplar of the “Theory of Radicalization” of Crenshaw, the Indian […]
Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right. — William Gladstone The recent confrontation between the Lahore High Court (LHC) and the Punjab government has brought into sharp focus a perennial dilemma of governance in Pakistan: how to balance speedy relief for citizens with the constitutional guarantees of due process and judicial oversight. At […]
For years, Pakistan’s digital governance architecture has been held hostage by a stubborn over-reliance on a single, fallible biometric marker on the other. The federal government’s decision to amend the National Identity Card Rules to legally recognise facial and iris scans — alongside fingerprints — marks a long-overdue correction to this imbalance. This is a major structural […]
According to UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, Pakistan has now officially become the world’s fifth most populous country. In almost eight decades, its population has risen from a meagre 33.7 million to a Herculean 255 million, divided between four provinces: Sindh, Balochistan, Punjab and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, along with the federally administered Islamabad Capital Territory. The […]